Killbuck · NY · Western New York · baseball
Aces 12U
A parent who thought the team's Cooperstown pins weren't good enough — so they had one made for their own kid instead.
100 pins2.0"
Finish
Glitter pins
Glitter is a finish, applied to any pin type: mixed into the enamel of a chosen colour rather than laid on top, so it will not rub off.
It is specified per colour — one glitter colour, or several. Most orders use it on a single accent area: the shape of a state, a star, a puck.
Project records
CA · baseball
Antelope Valley Coyotes
The same club came back and ordered fifty percent more.
1,600 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Senoia · GA · Metro Atlanta · softball
AP Pope 12U
The customer named their event on the quote form before anyone picked up the phone: Softball World Series.
2.0"
Apple Valley · MN · Twin Cities metro · baseball
Apple Valley Baseball
A thousand spinner pins with a banner and glitter — and a last-minute artwork change because a player left the program before Cooperstown.
1,000 pins2.25"Banner included
Winchester · CA · Inland Empire · baseball
Arsenal Elite
Two sizes quoted side by side at 400 slider pins — 2.25 inch against 3 inch — with a glitter finish.
400 pins
· baseball
Athletes HQ
Six pin designs, two of them on dangles, plus a six-foot banner — and a quantity mix-up caught after the order had already reached the factory.
Banner includedVerbatim quote
Whitesburg · GA · Metro Atlanta · softball
Atlanta Premier
A softball team heading to their World Series asked to see their pin with the softball taken off it.
200 pins2.25"
PA · baseball
Avon Grove Bombers
A customer who did his own arithmetic, twice — and got a straight answer both times.
670 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
Long Beach · CA · baseball
Beach City Cyclones
A VW camper van and a Snoop Dogg portrait, from a Long Beach team going to Cooperstown.
1,540 pins2.25" / 3.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Satellite Beach · FL · Space Coast · softball
Beachside Sirens
Six hundred two-and-a-half inch pins, and the only thing holding the order up was whether they should have glitter.
600 pins2.5"Verbatim quote
Beaver Valley · PA · baseball
Beaver Valley Black
A parent who kept asking whether her own taste was the right taste - and designed a better pin because of it.
875 pins2.0" / 2.5" / 3.0"Verbatim quote
Beaver Valley · PA · baseball
Beaver Valley Red
The order where a quoting error was corrected out loud rather than quietly absorbed.
1,160 pins2.0" / 2.5" / 3.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Beaver Valley · PA · baseball
Beaver Valley White
Two sibling teams, one week at Cooperstown, and a pin designed in two halves so the teams could complete each other's.
1,050 pins3.0"Verbatim quote
· baseball
Birmingham Giants
Two hundred pins is a small order. Dropping half an inch made it a third cheaper.
200 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Baxter · MN · Brainerd Lakes · association · hockey
Brainerd Amateur Hockey Association
An entire association covered by one order — 1,500 pins on a single invoice, with a rush that TPC had to chase the factory to protect.
1,500 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
Brampton · baseball
Brampton Challengers
A hundred pins, individually wrapped, with packing instructions written into the order.
100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
GA · baseball
Buford Wolves
A first-time buyer working out how many pins a ten-player team needs.
110 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
GA · baseball
Buford Wolves
One team in 2024. Three teams in 2025.
2.0"Verbatim quote
Berwyn · PA · baseball
Bulldogs BB PA
Nine hundred standard, a hundred and twenty rare, a hundred gold — scarcity designed on purpose.
1,120 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote
CA · baseball
Cali Dream
"We just want to make sure our parents can afford them."
800 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Pennsville · NJ · South Jersey · hockey
Campus Wild 12AA
A South Jersey 12AA team on a hard January deadline — routed by freight forward specifically to avoid the tariff.
375 pins1.75"
Chaska · MN · hockey
Chaska Chanhassen Hockey Association (CCHA)
Three teams from one Minnesota association, three separate orders, two different families — and a puzzle-piece pin set that had to be re-engineered so it would survive production.
Rockledge · FL · Space Coast · corporate
City of Rockledge
Fifteen hundred pins for a Florida city — the largest corporate run in the collection, and the lowest price per pin anywhere in it.
1,500 pins1.5"
Cleveland · MS · Mississippi Delta · softball
Cleveland All-Stars
A Mississippi softball team heading to the Dizzy Dean World Series — and the cheapest per-pin price in the whole library.
2.0"Verbatim quote
8U · softball
Corona Avengers / KAT 8U
Six prices on the table at once — two sizes across three quantities — and an 8U team picked the middle of the ladder.
400 pins2.5"
Corryton · TN · East Tennessee · corporate
Corryton Community Club
A community club in East Tennessee ordered 224 spinner pins for an event called The Possum Chase.
224 pins1.5"
· hockey
CYHA Thunder
The customer set a budget in her first message, and the glitter came off the pin to keep it.
330 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
San Diego · CA · baseball
Free Agents 11U
The artwork decided the size, not the budget.
500 pins2.0"Verbatim quote
MN · hockey
Hopkins Royals Squirt
"If you could do them at $2.05, I'd go with that. Otherwise, let's do the 2-inch."
600 pins2.25"Verbatim quote
Keene · NH · figure-skating
Keene Figure Skating Club
The hockey club sent them. The skating board chose the glitter.
150 pins1.5"Verbatim quote
Minneapolis · MN · hockey
Minneapolis Storm B2
The cherry spins. It is the Spoonbridge, and it is the best-argued spinner in the library.
200 pins1.75"Verbatim quote
West St. Paul · MN · hockey
West St. Paul Hockey
A team that asked for a scoreboard on their pin, changed their minds several times, and apologised for it — unnecessarily.
2.0"Verbatim quote
· hockey
Westchester Express
Seventy-five pins at three inches, headed for Ottawa — and the happiest customer in the archive.
75 pins3.0"Verbatim quote